After watching some Burlington Geographic videos on the history of the Water Front area, I was able to ascertain a few things about the history of my site in particular. On the other side of the bike path, when you first enter the trail to my site, there is a large Cedar Bluff, which was used by the Abenaki people around 300 years ago to access fishing grounds. Some of the bluffs were easier to navigate than others, but the less steep ones were usually the most utilized. I also learned that hundreds of years ago, the shore met Lake Champlain where those bluffs rest, leaving the few hundred feet of land present today, to be built with artificial fill over the course of hundreds of years of various human historical events, one being the industrialization of timber in the 1800s, making Lake Champlain one of the largest water ports in the North East at the time.